By JOSEPH WHITE, Associated Press Writer
Add another name to the list of guys who will never get laid. - JS

WASHINGTON - The winner of the spelling bee sounded as if he’d rather be at a math Olympiad. Thirteen-year-old Evan O’Dorney of Danville, Calif., breezed through the Scripps National Spelling Bee with barely a hitch Thursday [...]

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Fredo Viola — “The Sad Song”

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By RONALD BLUM, AP Baseball Writer

Big league smarts or bush league stunt? Fans were buzzing Thursday over whether Alex Rodriguez broke baseball’s unwritten code by making a remark that distracted a Toronto infielder and allowed a ninth-inning popup to fall for a run-scoring single.
Troy Glaus, Toronto’s regular third baseman, said the last time he saw [...]

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By MATT SLAGLE, AP Technology Writer

DALLAS - Dell Inc. said Thursday that earnings fell slightly in preliminary first-quarter results, and the computer maker planned to lay off more than 8,000 employees over the next year as part of an ongoing restructuring.

Dell said it earned $759 million, or 34 cents per share, in the three months [...]

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I’m so glad and feel so protected by the Patriot Act and Border Patrol. It’s been six years! When is this system of, so called, security going to be fixed. - JS
By GREG BLUESTEIN and DEVLIN BARRETT, Associated Press Writers

ATLANTA - A globe-trotting Atlanta lawyer with a dangerous strain of tuberculosis was allowed back into [...]

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Blue Herald is proud to announce the premiere of Blue Herald Radio Monday June 11, 2007.
Blue Herald Radio is a three hour podcast available each Monday with News, Politics, Opinion, Sports, Weather, Interviews and Music.
You’ll also be able to call in, talk with us and share your opinions! Yes, it’s a pre-recorded show. But call [...]

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Like Bat says, you can’t get enough Froomkin……
By Dan Froomkin
Special to washingtonpost.com
Thursday, May 31, 2007; 12:52 PM

The White House, long irritated by the frequent use of Vietnam as a metaphor for Iraq, embraced its own analogy yesterday: South Korea.
There’s an undeniable attraction to holding up America’s military presence in South Korea as a model for [...]

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The troop surge in Iraq has put more U.S. soldiers vulnerable positions in outposts. May has been the 3rd deadiest month for our troops in Iraq, with 123 deaths so far. The other two being November 2004 with 137 deaths and April 2004 with 135 deaths. Expect more as the surge to [...]

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By LINDA GREENHOUSE
from The New York Times

Whatever else may be said about the Supreme Court’s current term, which ends in about a month, it will be remembered as the time when Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg found her voice, and used it.
Both in the abortion case the court decided last month and the discrimination ruling it [...]

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I guess this is what was meant by “crisis stage.” And who put us here?

MOSCOW (AFP) - President Vladimir Putin issued an acerbic warning Thursday to the United States, saying the recent test of a new Russian missile was a direct response to US actions and condemning “imperialism” in world affairs.
“Our [...]

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Administration officials said privately that the situation has reached a crisis stage and needs to be reversed before it gets worse.
And what exactly is a crisis stage? Don’t you wonder where we’d be in foreign relations today if Bush had never stolen the Presidency?

President Bush yesterday launched a high-stakes effort to repair the [...]

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A visual aid for QuestionGirl’s post:
Troops Question to Lieberman: When Are We Going Home

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